Twitter Finally Reveals All Its Secret Stats

Here’s a summary of the facts and figures Twitter just shared:

• Twitter now has 105,779,710 registered users.

• New users are signing up at the rate of 300,000 per day.

• 180 million unique visitors come to the site every month.

• 75% of Twitter traffic comes from outside Twitter.com (i.e. via third party applications.)

• Twitter gets a total of 3 billion requests a day via its API.

• Twitter users are, in total, tweeting an average of 55 million tweets a day.

• Twitter’s search engine receives around 600 million search queries per day.

• Of Twitter’s active users, 37 percent use their phone to tweet.

• Over half of all tweets (60 percent) come from third party applications.